QuickKnol: Reading Configuration Files in Scala

There are several ways of reading configuration files in Scala including the java properties way with the deprecated Configgy and quite some more. One way which is easy and comes in handy is with the Typesafe Config project which is also used in Akka.

Let us quickly see how to set it up,

You would need to include the following dependency in your build.sbt or Build.scala.

Once you have this, setting up the logger is straight forward. The snippet in our case is

The ConfigFactory.load by default looks for the following files in order

*system properties
*application.conf (all resources on classpath with this name)
*application.json (all resources on classpath with this name)
*application.properties (all resources on classpath with this name)
*reference.conf (all resources on classpath with this name)

You could also load it with a different file using ConfigFactory.load(file-name), like when you would want to execute tests.

and the configuration file would look like this

As you would notice, we can access the subsections. Let us see it through a test

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Knoldus is the world’s largest pure-play Scala and Spark company. We modernize enterprise through
cutting-edge digital engineering by leveraging Scala, Functional Java and Spark ecosystem. Our mission is to provide reactive and streaming fast data solutions that are message-driven, elastic, resilient, and responsive.

Knoldus is the world's largest pure-play Scala and Spark company. We modernize enterprise through
cutting-edge digital engineering by leveraging Scala, Functional Java and Spark ecosystem. Our mission is to provide reactive and streaming fast data solutions that are message-driven, elastic, resilient, and responsive.